From Commit to Company

I'm Bofu Chen, a serial entrepreneur, open‑source contributor, and the founder behind Numbers Protocol. Here I write about the messy reality of scaling products, teams, and code.

Bofu Chen

Work & Startup Experience

2020 - Present

Founder & CEO/CTO

Numbers Protocol

Built an open, decentralized protocol for digital media provenance. Secured millions of digital assets and won multiple international awards including the Tech4Trust Award.

Blockchain Open Source Product Development
2017 - 2020

Founder & CTO

DT42

Created an AI knowledge engine that helps organizations transform content into interactive knowledge bases. Led technical team and product vision.

Artificial Intelligence Product Development Technical Leadership
2014 - 2017

Techlead

Canonical Ltd.

Contributed to Ubuntu's core system integration. Led key OEM partnerships with major hardware manufacturers to optimize Ubuntu for their devices.

Linux Open Source System Integration

Featured Talks

2025-02-24

Open and Transparent: Secure Digital Media with Blockchain

RightsCon25

2024-05-08

IPTC Panel: AI and Image Authenticity

IPTC

2022-12-16

Create the Full History of Digital Assets with Numbers Mainnet

Taipei Blockchain Week

2020-12-23

IPFS and Decentralized Cloud Storage

Blocktrend

2020-04-14

What is Numbers Protocol

Filecoin

Free Software Projects

Nit - Create onchain provenance like Git

A toolkit for verifying the authenticity and integrity of digital media through cryptographic signatures and blockchain technologies.

Digital Provenance Web3 Open Standards

ERC-7053: Interoperable Digital Media Indexing

A universal indexing method to record, discover and retrieve the history of digital media on EVM-compatible blockchains.

Digital Provenance Web3 Open Standards

Capture Cam

The 1st web3 camera app with onchain provenance and C2PA.

Digital Provenance Web3 C2PA

BerryNet

Deep learning gateway on edge devices. Deploy AI image recognition and object detection with ease on Raspberry Pi and other IoT devices.

AI IoT Edge Computing

AIKEA

An AI knowledge engine architecture that helps transform unstructured content into structured, searchable knowledge bases.

AI Right-to-Repair Privacy

Get In Touch

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